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Andy White (right) instructs co-worker Cindy White how to operate a .22-caliber rifle at the Rocky Fork Lakes Conservation Area Shooting Range. Although it was Cindy White's first time shooting, Andy White said he has been shooting for years. "I don't shoot it unless it has a target, or I can eat it." Andy White said.

Missouri swimmer Lauren Lavigna finished second in the women's 200-meter backstroke during Day 3 of the 2009 Missouri Grand Prix. Mary Descenza won the race as well as the women's 200-meter butterfly for her fourth and fifth gold medals of the event.

Sixth Ward Councilwoman Barbara Hoppe was surrounded by supporters and art on Sunday night, where she spoke about new goals and her re-electon bid for Columbia City Council. Rod Robison is running against Hoppe in the April election.

Artist Grant Blackwell and Isaiah Berry, a fifth grader at West Boulevard Elementary School, worked together to create a work of art depicting the movement of Africans to places worldwide. The piece was unveiled at a banquet at MU's Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center on Sunday afternoon.

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has hired a frame maker to recreate an ornate gold frame for Emanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting. The frame has been in the works since 2007 and will replace the existing frame after second-floor remodeling at the Met.

The pilot of the commuter plane that crashed into a home near Buffalo on Thursday may have violated federal safety recommendations. In icy weather, pilots are suggested to take the plane off of autopilot. Investigations will continue.